States Start Hiring Battalions of Contact Tracers to Track Covid-19

Route Fifty: Before public life can return to normal in the United States, public health experts say the country will need a robust system in place to identify new coronavirus cases and track down and isolate people who came into close contact with the infected.

It’s a process known as “contact tracing” that has been deployed by public health departments for years on diseases like the measles.

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